You’d be hard-pressed to find any major website that doesn’t use some form of Ajax-enabled functionality in its presentation.
But the thing with Ajax is that it still requires three components in order to get it working: an existing page, JavaScript, and some server-side functionality.
That’s fine, but if you’re in the business of building high fidelity HTML prototypes, writing any Ajax is a little heavy-handed. The guys at Quplo thought so, too.
So they wrote Scatter.
Scatter is a JavaScript utility that makes it easy to simulate Ajax functionality within the context of a mockup without actually having to write all of the code that’s necessary to make Ajax happen.
Generally speaking, you setup your page to include a couple of elements one of which is marked with the scatter attribute:
[cc lang=”html”]
[/cc]
From there, you simply setup a page that’s linked from, say, the anchor element above and Scatter will replace the content in the existing page with what is sent from the second page:
[cc lang=”html”]
[/cc]
To get started, download Scatter, include it in your page, and then call Scatter.scanPage() early in the lifetime of your page.
Just says
This looks really interesting. I can see UX people using this to mockup prototypes that have functionality beyond the limitations that some programs like iRise and Azure impose.